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I love Assassin, and I always wanted to have a working Blade Fury one. I created Furiosa, with the intention to level her as Blade Fury until it gets boring/ineffective and then respec her to Mosaic. But turns out I quite liked the effectiveness of the build and it really destroys anything in hell (at least up to players 3). So, I decided I will actually run Ubers with her. Mind you, I have never run ubers, and I decided my first time should be on hardcore.
My first attempt at lvl83 was complete failure. Lililth 1-shot my mercenary, and I ran like a scared dog back to town. Had to call a friend to come and carry me through the entire ubers set with his Paladin. At least I got some experience, and decided I should try again
Today I managed to solo the lesser Ubers with level 90. And I haven't even min maxed the build, e.g. I haven't socketed my gface and my weapon and I don't even have open wounds. True, Lilith took me 4 returns to town to Revive merc, and I gobbled about 50 full rejuvenation potions, but she died all in all. Below are the keys of strategy:
- #1 is the Merc actually. He has The Reaper's Toll, Blessed Aim aura for my hit rating, and Shako and Shaftstop so he doesn't die in 1 shot. His job is to proc Decrepify. He is not very tanky, in fact I am much tankier than him, but nevertheless without his Decrepify i cannot kill and this being hardcore I get scared shitless when Lilith is two feet away from me.
- #2 is of course Guillaume's Face. This build just doesn't work without crushing blow. Also, Laying of Hands goes without saying.
- #3 is a ring with Sigil Lethargy charges. This skill is simply broken, it makes killing any boss tons easier.
- #4 is the Obedience in an ethereal Mancatcher. Since Blade Fury doesn't use durability I can use an Eth one and go around with this on swap and proc level 21 Enchant on me. Also does decent damage, but I only dared to use it against Izual, since sacrificing the shield is extremely risky.
- #5 Shadow Killer - I can make a case that this is an actual BiS weapon for a Blade Fury sin. I tried Lacerator, I didn't like it. Also Stormshield. The assassin is very tanky, with lvl 22 Fade the damage reduction is very good.
Still, it wasn't walk in the park and Lilith really scared me, but then again it felt even more satisfying to kill her. I feel that Uber Tristram will be way too though, so I decided to pause now and do it later. Maybe will socket my Shadow Killer with an Um for open wounds. Though I also have a Duress that I can use. I have theorycrafted that my lightning protection against Mephisto should be enough (even switching to Schaefer's Hammer), but I feel that Baal and Diablo will actually be a problem.
I will update you when I beat the Ubers or die trying.
Maybe even Ancients one day.
Triumphant Furiosa stands atop Izual's corpse:
Can be used to make Runewords:
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